Measure value by result, not money invested. Buying a new iPhone feels amazing. This thing will make my life better in multiple ways, I better match the color with a nice case. Don’t forget screen protector, I don’t want to dent the screen. There’s also that dust plug for the charger cutout. BTW, holiday is…

10th grade, I saved up THB 3,000 for my first Nike basketball shoes. At 30, I start to see people save up 20% for their home down payment. Once we start to make a paycheck or receive our credit card, that stopped. Everything seemed so easy now. The wait is gone. So was happiness. It…

I decided to change the way to allocate fun money, from once a year to once a month. Problem of fun money with “leftover” from annual savings: With allocating in each income cycle, the purpose is to act as a reminder to refocus whatever the purchase is. There’s a goal to save towards to and…

It used to be 5% of income that all goes into a cash envelope. We pull money from it if there’s any large purchases for the parents or flush into red envelop during Lunar New Year. The experiment Luckily, our parents are in good financial shape and that gave us room to plan for the…

November is a month with multiple large one time bills; we’ve almost doubled the monthly expense from NT$82,558 of October to 165,212 of November. There are 3 expenses that contributed to the inflated number. It accumulates 55% of the November expense; without those, the November expense is 76,138. The baseline expense is actually lower than…

Radio has become the staple for family meal time. It’s an outdated, single purpose technology, but it reminds us to live in the moment, even if it’s imperfect or unpleasant.

Spin caps are great for night journals, the seconds it takes to spin the cap off provides a time to recap the day. It enhances the ceremonial process. Snap caps are great for work. The reality is, the time to spin the cap off and adjust the grip is enough to cost an idea or…

The feeling of running out of ink in a middle of a meeting and trying to touch the paper lightly to squeeze its last ink drop is disturbing. That made Lamy Safari a fountain pen worth constant revisiting. It’s a bless not having to unscrew the pen and flip it upside down to check the…

They gamified my life and satisfied my OCD of tracking every aspect of my life, although the benefit and medical reliability is questionable. The fact it shines every time I turn my wrist is extremely annoying during light out. That half second delay between my wrist position and screen display. Maybe my nitpicking is the…